Trevor wrote:
> I have a coupe of PC's in the house and all of them took a few
> tries to get this one installed. My newest PC running XP SP2 and
> is always updated automitcally just won't take the update. It
> appears to update when clicking on the little yellow shield, but
> then the shield appears again a few minutes later with the same
> update. No error messages in the log. Tried using the
> Microsoft.com website to do the update, same problem.
>
> MICROSOFT, THIS HAS BEEN WEEKS ON END, WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!
3 weeks, 2 days (23 days total) as of Thursday, August 2 actually.
As pointed out previously - I would not *rely* on any automated fix/repair
from Microsoft. The problem does *not* exist for everyone. I have
installed MANY machines *fresh* since July 10, 2007 - and not had any
issues. I pushed the update out to many clients and have not had any
issues. Many others have had the same results. If there will be some 'fix'
release - it might be *on schedule* with the regular updates (second tuesday
of each month - August 13, 2007 in this case) or it may never come. It's
really up to you if you desire to wait and see or not.
There are many people in this newsgroup who have posted work-around
solutions to the issue.
I do not know what you did in as far as installing the .NET Framework's onto
your newest machine (or if it came to you installed by and OEM and you left
it that way) - but I can share with you the method I utilize when
installaing a new machine so maybe you will not have this problem with
future installations...
- I usually have as many updates slipstreamed (integrated) into the original
installation media as I can. SP2+most critical updates will easily
integrate.
- Right after a clean installation - I do install the three current .NET
Frameworks - in the following way:
dotnetfx.exe /q /c:"install /q"
NDP1.1sp1-KB867460-X86.exe /q /i
NDP1.1sp1-KB886903-X86.exe /q /i
NDP1.1sp1-KB928366-X86.exe /q /i
REBOOT
dotnetfx2.exe /q /c:"install /q"
ndp20-kb917283-x86.exe /passive /q /norestart
ndp20-kb922770-x86.exe /passive /q /norestart
ndp20-kb928365-x86.exe /passive /q /norestart
REBOOT
dotnetfx3.exe /q /norestart
netfx30-kb932471-x86-enu.exe /passive /q /norestart
REBOOT
At that point - I have the three current .NET Framework's installed and
pretty well patched. I usually don't have much other than non-critical and
application patches to apply (as the installation media had most of the
critical patches integrated) after that and once those are installed
(usually by scripts) - I just turn on Automatic Updates (download/notify in
my case) and just do a little reading each month.
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